What the HELL is "snark" and how is it used?

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Hale Storm

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Ready for the cheers, jeers, and criticisms. I may be a newbie here but I got my big boy pants on today.
What is a "Snark", "Snarkie", et al.????

IS there a "snarker"?

Begin initiation phase and hazing....................
 
I don't really understand the point to it either.


....hey man, we did some business on Ebay, you bought a Native 5 from me and stone washed it, did custom scales and relisted. ....good to see you here.
 
Google is your friend. See:

noun
Combination of "snide" and "remark". Sarcastic comment(s).
Also snarky (adj.) and snarkily (adv.)

Best.
 
Not sure if you meant to post this on General Knife Discussion as the question has nothing to do with knives, but to answer you, "snark" is basically snide comments and sarcasm, typically in an insulting manner.
 
I don't really understand the point to it either.


....hey man, we did some business on Ebay, you bought a Native 5 from me and stone washed it, did custom scales and relisted. ....good to see you here.

WOW! What a small world and AMAZING that you put all that together. How in the hell did you know that was me, and that was the 5? I'm wishing I had kept the 5. I know I did the work but I thought it was beautiful in the end. Guess it's a good excuse to do another one. LOL
 
Sorry I posted this in the wrong forum but then again, if I don't know what a "snark" is, or what it means, then how would I know where to post? I'm making two knives for a couple cousins of mine so when asked what model it is, I'll tell them it's the "Snark" model.
 
You guys better stop snarkin these snarkin threads at the wrong snark! Damn snarks. I gotta go snark.
 
Snark, that's the sound a dog makes after having dental work done and trying to bark while the novacaine still affected him, Grrrr snark, snark, snark snark ,grrrrrr.
 
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T. Erdelyi said:
Snark, that's the sound a dog makes after having dental work fine and trying to bark while the novacaine still affected him, Grrrr snark, snark, snark snark ,grrrrrr.
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That's probably as good an explanation as any and better than most. ;)

The use of the word SNARK is an attempt to be witty. Sorry, FAIL!
 
The Northrop SM-62 Snark was an intercontinental cruise missile deployed by SAC from 1958 through 1961.

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It was named for the mythological monster in Lewis Carroll's poem "The Hunting of the Snark."

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Carroll said he had never seen a snark and had no idea what it might be. He would have loved it as a portmanteau of "snide" and "remark." Carroll invented many portmanteaus, and he coined the name "portmanteau words" to describe them. For example:

slithy: lithe and slimy
mimsy: miserable and flimsy
frumious: fuming and furious

Everyone remembers Richard J. Daley's remark

I resent the insinuendos.
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If Richard J. had been a man of wit and learning, "insinuendo" might have been a clever portmanteau of insinuation and innuendo. Alas, it was only the malapropism of a frumious Bandersnatch.

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